Device for laying gold-leaf



(No Model.)

R. E. HASTINGS.

" DEVICE FOR LAYING GOLD LEAF.

} No. 602,985. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

FHZ.

UNITED S'rnrns ATENT rricn.

ROBERT E. HASTINGS, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR LAYING GOLD-LEAF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,985, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed July 26, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. Hnsrnves, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Devices for Laying Gold-Leaf, of which the following is a specification.

In the art of gliding surfaces with gold leaf, the leaf in the form of strips or ribbons, in connection with corresponding strips or ribbone of paper or similar material upon the face of which the leaf is mounted and adheres, is wound in the form of rolls upon suitable cylindriform wooden or other cores.

The leaf of these rolls is, in practice, applied directly to the surface to be ornamented, by rolling the roll across the surface, in such manner that the strip of paper and leaf, with the leaf beneath, is unwound from the roll, and deposited or laid upon the surface, to which the leaf adheres, and from which the paper is readily removable.

It is the object of my invention to provide a neat, simple, and inexpensive device, by or through which the rolls may be readily and conveniently held and manipulated by the workman in the application of the leaf to the surface to be decorated.

In the accompanying drawings I show and herein I describe several forms of convenient embodiments of my invention, the particular subject-matter claimed as novel being hereinafter definitely specified.

My invention comprehends,for use in connection with the rolls described, the cores of which embody axial apertures or bores,the provision of a pair of bearing plates adapted to be removably applied to opposite sides of a core, and which have shanks adapted to project within the bore of said core for the support of said plates and to form an axle upon which the roll may rotate when the plates are held between the thumb and finger of the user,--and further comprehends a retaining, tension, or brake device mounted in one or the other or both of said holding plates, and provided with a shoe to make contact with the exterior of the roll and preventits undue or untimely unwinding.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of an ap- Serial No. 645,968. (No model.)

paratus embodying my invention, illustrating. the manner in which the same is held between the thumb and finger of the user.

Figure 2 is a central longitudinal sectional plan of the devices shown in Figure 1.

Figures 3 and I are views in perspective of the bearing plates shown in Figure 2, separated and the roll being supposed removed.

Figure 5 is a sectional plan of a modified form of my device.

Figure 6 is a View in perspective of the device shown in Figure 5, the roll, however, being supposed removed.

Figure 7 is a view in perspective of one of the holding plates of Figure 6.

Figure Sis a sectional plan of bearing plates embodying my invention, shown as employed in connection with a roll, but without any guard or brake device.

Figure 9 is a view in perspective of the devices shown in Figure 8, the roll being sup posed removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring, first, to the form of the device shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, in which a guard or brake device is shown as applied,- A is the core, and a is the roll of leaf-provided paper mounted or wound upon it.

B and C are the holding plates, each provided as to its inner face with a shank,-the shanks being designated 72 and 0, respectively.

The bodies of the holdingplates are conveniently in the form of disks, and of such diameter as to permit of their being conveniently held between the thumb and finger of the user.

The shanks b and 0 project from opposite sides within the bore of the core, and together form an axle upon whicl1,-the holding plates, as shown in Figure 1, being held between the thumb and finger, and the roll being rolled along upon the surface to be decorated,said roll will rotate as an axis.

The shank b is conveniently formed as a hollow boss, the exterior of which is approximately of the same diameter as the axial bore of the core, While the interior diameter of said boss is approximately equal to the exterior diameter of the shank owhich is entered and capable of slight longitudinal movement within it.

Longitudinal slots b formed in the wall of said shank I), serve to receive lugs 0 projecting from the shank a, so that while said holding plates are free to move toward and from each other, they are retained against independent rotation.

b is a spiral spring, shown as mounted upon the end of the shank c, and adapted, when the parts are assembled, to bear as to its free end against the base of the hollow interior of the boss Z).

dare slots or openings diametrically formed through the bodies of the holding disks B and 0, through which are passed and in which are seated free for longitudinal movement, the shanks cl of a brake device.

These shanks extend diametrically of the roll beyond its periphery, their front ends being, beyond said periphery, shown as turned inwardly toward each other to form an axle for a roller D, of length slightly in excess of the breadth of the roll, which, in the embodiment of my invention under discussion, constitutes the brake shoe.

Springs d applied in any convenient manner hold said brake shoe constantly against the periphery of the roll in constant compensation for its reduction in diameter.

I prefer to apply these springs to the brake by mounting them upon rearward extensions of the shanks d, and confining them between bossesd on the rear extremities of said shanks, and the rims of the holding plates.

In the use of the device, the user grasps the and, pressing the roll against the surface to be decorated, draws it across the same in the proper direction to uncoil the leaf-bearing strip of paper.

The holding plates are readily Withdrawn from a given core after its roll has been unwound, and applied to a core carrying a fresh roll.

In the embodiment of my invention shown in Figures 5, 6, and 7, the arrangement of the holding plates and their shanks is essentially the same as that described, except that the studs e and slots b shown especially in Figures 3 and 4, are omitted, and a modified form of brake employed.

In said Figures 5 and 6, one only of the holding plates is provided with the aperture 01, and the shank of the brake, which is normall y somewhat larger than the said opening formed in the holding plate, is split so that said shank may be compressed within said aperture, and when in place, will by reason of the expansion of its members against the Wall of said opening, retain itself temporarily in any position to which it may be adjusted.

The brake shoe itself, designated D is shown as a continuation of the shank bent at right angles to the body thereof, so as to be adapted to bear, as a brake shoe, against the periphery of the roll.

In the operation of this device, the brake member, whenever the use of the device is discontinued, is to bemoved inward in order to present the shoe against the periphery of the roll, to prevent it from uncoiling.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 8 and 9, the form and arrangement of the holding plates and their shanks is essentially the same as that shown in Figures 5 and 6, except that the plates are not provided with apertures for the brake members, as no brake members are shown as employed,it being, of course, possible to dispense with a brake.

The function of the spring 6 is to normally maintain the holder plates sprung slightly apart, so to speak, so that the inner faces of said plates will clear the side faces of the core,with the result that when compression is applied to said plates by the thumb and finger of the user, they are carried toward each other, incidentally compressing said spring, against the faces of the core, and retarding the rotation of the core upon the axle in proportion to the force applied to the plates.

As a result of this arrangement the rotation of the roll in the mauipulationvof the device may be regulated to a nicety, and the strip of film unwound from the roll and in process of application to the surface to be decorated, may be drawn tau-t by tightening the grasp upon said holding plates and confining said roll against rotation, at such times as it may be desired to exert tension upon the unwound strip. holding plates between his thumb and finger,

I do not herein specifically claim in com- 1 bination with holding plates of the general character illustrated, the form of brake-shank shown in Figures 5 and 6,-such subjectmatter being specifically claimed in another application filed by me, on the 8th day of October, 1897, as Serial No. e,5l1.

Having thus. described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In combination, an axial'lyapertured core for a roll of gold-leaf, a pair of shankprovided holding plates the shanks of which are entered from opposite ends within the aperture of the core, and a separating spring acting to separate the plates, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination, an axially apertured core for a roll of gold-leaf, a pair of shankprovided holding plates the shanks of which are entered from opposite ends within the aperture of the core, and a separating spring within said aperture normally acting against the inner end of the shanks to separate the plates, and a brake carried by the plates and acting upon the periphery of the roll, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In combination, an axially apertured core for a roll of gold leaf, a pair of shankprovided holding plates, the shanks of which are entered from opposite ends within the aperture of the core, a separating spring acting to separate the plates, and a brake connected with a holding plate, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In combination, an axiallyapertured core for a roll of gold leaf, a pair of shankprovided holding plates the shanks of which are entered from opposite ends within the aperture of the core, a separating spring acting to separate the plates, a brake shank movably connected to one of the holding plates and extending radially beyond the periphery of the core, and having a projection on its free end overhanging said periphery, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with a core-provided roll of gold leaf, of a pair of holder plates provided with shanks adapted to be entered in the axial bore of the core of the roll, openings formed in said holding plates, brake shanks mounted in said openings and extending to the periphery of the roll, a brake shoe mounted upon the front extremities of said brake shanks, and a spring which operates to draw said brake shoe toward the core, substantiallyas set forth.

6. The combination, to form a device for holding and manipulating a roll of gold leaf, of a pair of holder plates having shanks and embodying openings, brake shanks mounted in said openings and arranged to extend to the periphery of the roll and bent toward each other to form an axle for a roller mounted on said inwardly turned ends, a roller, and a spring applied to the rear ends of said shanks between the holder plates and projections formed on said shanks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have hereunto signed my name this 22d day of July, A. D. 1897.

ROBERT E. HASTINGS.

In presence of- J. BONSALL TAYLOR, F. NORMAN DIXON. 

